Boer War Comes to Brooklyn details Harry Houdini exposes spiritualist methods

Harry Houdini exposes spiritualist methods of trickery during a mock seance to members of the New York Federation of Churches at the New York Hippodrome

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Boer War Comes to Brooklyn details Harry Houdini exposes spiritualist methodsIn the early days of silent films, before movie companies moved to Southern California, New York was the nation's film capital. War movies were one of the most popular genres and in this photo George Melford directs "The Boer War" in Brooklyn. This photograph was used as a promotional photo for "The Boer War" around its release March 31, 1914. Vitagraph Studios, which built its first studio in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn in 1905, made "The Boer War"